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Sarah Vogel will present, “The Wild Ride: Keepseagle Class Action and the Decades-Long Fight of Native American Ranchers and Farmers” at the @AgrarianStudies Colloquium paper workshop this Friday at 11 am in room 101, 230 Prospect.
Learn more here: macmillan.yale.edu/agrarian
This is #HumanitiesNow: Professor @ellezakelley on why we need Denise Ferreira da Silva’s work now more than ever, and Ferreira da Silva on decolonization and reparations, explained through potential energy and heat.
@Yale @livingcommons
Denise Ferreira da Silva & Arjuna Neuman’s film will percolate in our minds for a long time. As will their conversation w/ @santiago_acosta about the haunted materiality of extraction & colonialism.
The convo continues tonight w/ Ferreira da Silva’s lecture!
4:30 pm in HQ L01
Artist & philosopher Denise Ferreira da Silva is here!
Join us tonight for a screening of her film ANCESTRAL CLOUDS ANCESTRAL CLAIMS + a conversation with her co-director Arjuna Neuman and our WHC fellow @santiago_acosta (@YaleSpanPort)
📍 Alice Cinema (HQ L01)
⏰ 4:30 pm
We’re thrilled to welcome Denise Ferreira da Silva & Arjuna Neuman for 2 Humanities Now events, Oct. 9–10. First up is a screening of their film ANCESTRAL CLOUDS ANCESTRAL CLAIMS + a Q&A moderated by @santiago_acosta (@YaleSpanPort).
whc.yale.edu/humanities-now-…
Watch the trailer: youtube.com/watch?v=UJMpw0OI…
Join us again on Oct 10 for Ferreira da Silva's lecture, "On Interiority: An Exploration of the Infrastructures of Subjectivity," which promises to be a thought-provoking exploration of crucial global issues from an anticolonial black feminist perspective.
whc.yale.edu/interiority-exp…
Our first month with these two wonderful thinkers has flown by! Meet our 2024–25 Franke Visiting Fellow Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi & our inaugural Franke Postdoctoral Fellow @michi_rada.
You can learn about their work and that of other WHC Fellows here: whc.yale.edu/people/fellows/….
ALT Black and white headshots of Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi and Michelle Rada, bordered with Yale blue and white.
The plants have stories and they can teach us. 🍃🌻
We learned so much from the plants, @sumanasiliguri, and @YSFP’s Jacquie Munno during our visit to the Yale Farm this week. Many thanks to you both for the deeply nourishing conversation!
@Yale #YaleFarm #YaleWHC #YSFP
In a little less than an hour, we get to hear the wonderful author of these books talk about various attempts to parse a language from plants over the past century. Join us in Alice Cinema at 4:30 for @SumanaSiliguri’s “The Quest for the Plant Script”
Tomorrow! @SumanaSiliguri presents, "The Quest for the Plant Script" at @YaleWHC
September 12, 2024 | 4:30 pm
Humanities Quadrangle (HQ)
Alice Cinema (L01)
Event details here: i.mtr.cool/gxcqantuzm
We couldn’t have asked for a better start to the year! Thank you, Asmae El Moudir, for sharing your disarmingly tender & beautiful film w/ us. It was an honor to discuss courage, filmmaking, Moroccan culture, Freud, & your family, whom we were delighted to meet in miniature
@Yale
Save the date!
📽️🌍Films at the Whitney’s fall 2024 series, “World Documentaries Today” kicks off on 9/5 at 7 pm w/ #TheMotherOfAllLies, followed by a Q&A w/ director Asmae El Moudir, ahead of its official release in NYC the next day.
📍Alice Cinema (L01) at 320 York St.
Learn more about the series, curated by @Yale Ph.D. student @truelora: whc.yale.edu/news/films-whit…
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If plants could write, what stories would they tell us? Join Sumana Roy, author of How I Became a Tree and Provincials: Postcards from the Peripheries, @YaleWHC to explore this age old question. Save the date: Thursday, September 12, 2024, 4:30 pm
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The Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism is hiring a full-time program coordinator. Join the leadership at one of America’s few university programs devoted solely to studying antisemitism: bit.ly/YaleCareers_89721BR
#YaleCareers #HigherEdJobs #AcademicCareers #Yale
📚✨ Our #HumanitiesNow lecture series sparked something special! Three presentations from our March 29 colloquium at the Whitney Humanities Center have found a new home in the summer issue of @YaleReview.
Read the full folio here: yalereview.org/criticism-and…
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OUR SUMMER ISSUE IS HERE! What is criticism, and why do we write it? Christine Smallwood, @mervatim, @namwalien, and @briangdillon respond. Plus: @AmitChaudhuri on being a postcolonial writer, Teju Cole on Louise Glück, @tausifnoor on Alice Notley, & more: yalereview.org/issues/summer…
Watch—and listen!—in horror.
This Thursday at 7:30 pm, internationally renowned silent-film musicians Donald Sosin and Joanna Seaton will perform a live score for the classic silent film “The Hands of Orlac (Orlacs Hände)” in HQ L02.
#Yale #SilentFilm #LiveMusic @YaleArtGallery
ALT Film still from "The Hands of Orlac"
ALT Film still from "The Hands of Orlac"
The Whitney Humanities Center is seeking graduate student film programmers for the upcoming (2024–25) academic year for Films at the Whitney. Please send proposals to Marc Francis ([email protected]) by Friday, May 31, 2024.
Learn more: whc.yale.edu/news/call-gradu…
#Yale #Film
ALT An audience watching THE TRIAL in the Alice Cinema at Yale.